Dreamcast/NAOMI GD-ROM dumping instructions

[TailS_tff]

SDRip : Still no news from he, he says me that parallel ripper (from him) have option to dump entire hd part in 1 file but I didn't have it for testing.
I've got several question about dreamcast dumping :
I've got several undumped games. I'm trying to do all I can to dump them but sometimes, ripping from SH-D162D gave a fews ice errors (sometimes on audio track (for games I can compare to redump)), sometimes on data tracks).
I have done with success modification on audio tracks from sdrip to be according to redump.
So : Can I add to redump database games that aren't fully dumped by SH-D162D (if I do the dump 3 or 4 times from sdrip corrected and SH-D162D) ?

[jamjam]

Any recommendations for a commandline replacement for cdrwin? Something that can take its place dumping scrambled sector ranges. That way you could get the image in multiple sector ranges with a batch file and stitch it together. Read errors wouldn't be so painful then.

It seems like the commandline cdrwin tools are able to do the job (in particular, CDCLIP.EXE), but you need to pay for it.

[pablogm123]

I have redumped my Guilty Gear X game using the PX-W4824TU (a external W4824TA) ejecting tray by the emergency hole and starstop.exe, and everything has gone flawlessly at 4x speed, 0 C2 errors. I have dumped a sub file of high density zone which proves that last data track has a pregap of 225 sectors, 75 marked as audio + 150 marked as data. Pregaps are Sony style (i.e. a pregap of 150 sectos is encoded as 1.74-0.00, not 2.00-0.01, Philips style).

http://www.mediafire.com/?dq38isxqs68nz5a

PS: It is possible to run px_d8 to determinate offset correction of HD area, for example:

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C:\Documents and Settings\Pablo>px_d8 h: 45000
Sector: 45000
MSF: 10:02:01
Combined offset: -736 bytes / -184 samples

[Enker]

iR0b0t, please move my Plextor PX-708A entry to the supported drives list. I tested it some more and got it to work repeatedly. I also retested my ASUS and got it to work a little bit, but now I can't get it to work again.

PS: Just a note for anyone dumping GD-ROMs. Make sure you dump the disc at least twice for new dumps and don't rely on the ice output to tell you if something is bad. For one verification I did the first time I dumped the disc it didn't match but ice didn't report any errors. The disc is a little bit scratched, so I had to use DCdumper to dump it successfully.

[pablogm123]

The original dctools.rar file was preserved by archive.org

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http://web.archive.org/web/20121116094435/http://vigi.dremora.com/dctools.rar

Mirror I have created:

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http://www.mediafire.com/?2qk7vtnjt9w6p7c

[F1ReB4LL]

http://www.mediafire.com/file/g02374d32 … v1.5.1.zip -- anyone to test?

[pablogm123]

Tested. Can open a DC dump and shows the files. However cannot extract the files, I get this message and extracted files are fully zeroed:

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Error in Application
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An unexpected error occurred.
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OK   
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And tested the GDDAtoWAV converter. Missing last 352800 bytes, converted files are truncated. Perhaps this function was designed without taking into account that redump appends gaps to next track, not to previous track.

[Jackal]

Can't cdmage do the same already? if you load it with a custom .cue?

[pablogm123]

Yes, I have checked that and CDmage can open the high density dump through cue generated by ice.exe, if you delete the track 01/02 entries and add a 10 min pregap for track 03.

[Warrior]

Anyone have a link to DCTools?

I can't seem to find it anywhere.